In March 2017 I was visited by Prof Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, and colleagues from Flextronics, San Francisco to design a sensing camera system, for lifelogging applications for a startup company LifeCloud. This is a small wearable camera that captures interesting events in the day, original work here at Microsoft Research. Software detects memorable moments, such as seeing friends, laughter or a change in view, and captures images in a few mS. The camera has a 170 degree wide angle lens, various environmental sensors, 14 hour battery life, blur reduction. Image search from the camera is provided by Google photos.Sensecam has proven to be useful re memory loss and dementia.
Here is a video from the BBC (4 mins) by James May ( BBC TopGear) visiting Alan Smeaton of Dublin University demonstrating the first Sensecam in 2008.

UPDATE July 2017. The LifeCloud company, of 8 people, will be closing due to finance and management issues. Due to many requests for SenseCams from Universities and hospitals, Girton Labs and Lyndsay Williams are looking to progress the SenseCam under new management.

We now wind the camera forward to 2017 and the latest Sensecam.

I provided to LifeCloud a sensing camera designs specification, working hardware and firmware. One camera design was for preproduction trials and one for production. I decided to make make the preproduction camera open source, hardware , firmware, case CAD design, as per my blog post in 2009.

LW Sensecam 2017 Camera specification

5M Pixel camera

170 degree wide angle lens f 2.8, fixed focus 4" to infinity

up to 1600 ISO light sensitivity

video, image and audio storage, jpeg, h264

smart sensing based on motion, light change, audio, thermopile, GPS and other parameters

16th June, open source design by Dublin City University, by Cathal Gurrin, the OpenInitiative openi https://openi.co/

I plan to work with Cathal Gurrin re this, contact me Lyndsay Williams, sensecam@gmail.com re design files for BOM, firmware and CAD case, or to arrange a public share online.

Future production design

For a built of 100 cameras, a Raspberry pi Zero W is economical.

For the production design, of more than 100, we plan to use a smaller formfactor, based on 400MHz ARM computer , as in image below. This will have a spec similar to above camera , with a microphone, and Real Time Clock.